{"id":61,"date":"2002-12-09T12:49:12","date_gmt":"2002-12-09T20:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=61"},"modified":"2002-12-09T12:49:12","modified_gmt":"2002-12-09T20:49:12","slug":"85743936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/85743936\/","title":{"rendered":"85743936"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eye.net\/eye\/issue\/issue_12.05.02\/city\/donuts.html\">eye &#8211; Au vieux cruller &#8211; 12.05.02<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAn entry in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French explains how the now-<br \/>\nlegendary and sometimes theme-parked caf\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds of Paris were, during the Enlightenment, &#8220;places where new or subversive ideas could be fairly openly discussed (though police spies haunted them).&#8221; Later, they became home to the bohemians, some of whom called themselves &#8220;the water drinkers&#8221; because that was all they could afford. Later still, the Caf\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd de Flore in St.-Germain-des-Pr\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds became the hangout for Sartre and Beauvoir and the world headquarters for existentialist thought chiefly because, according to a history of caf\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd life in the November, 2002 issue of the English-language online magazine ParisTempo.com, &#8220;The owner was kind to his &#8216;clients&#8217; though they often bought only one small caf\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd each day.&#8221; The magazine piece sums it up: &#8220;[caf\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds] are the soul of Paris, reflecting the vagaries of neighborhood life in all its sordid splendor &#8230; they have always been a place to read, to write, to plot, to dream, even to fall in love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subversive, cheap, unhurried, varied and haunted by police: sounds a bit like Coffee Time, doesn&#8217;t it? Canada, an evolving culture, has never been as precious as France. They have a beret stylishly cocked atop their head, we have a toque pulled down over our eyes, they have red wine and unpasteurized cheese, we have Molson Canadian and Kraft Dinner. They have caf\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds, we have donut shops.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncf.ca\/~ek867\/wood_s_lot.html\">wood s lot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eye &#8211; Au vieux cruller &#8211; 12.05.02 An entry in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French explains how the now- legendary and sometimes theme-parked caf\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds of Paris were, during the Enlightenment, &#8220;places where new or subversive ideas could be fairly openly discussed (though police spies haunted them).&#8221; Later, they became home to the bohemians, some of whom called themselves &#8220;the water drinkers&#8221; because that was all they could afford. Later still, the Caf\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd de Flore in St.-Germain-des-Pr\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds became the hangout for Sartre and Beauvoir and the world headquarters for existentialist thought chiefly because, according to a history of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/siBp1-85743936","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}